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Definition of curb
1 : a bit that exerts severe pressure on a horse's jaws; also : the chain or strap attached to it — see bit illustration
2 : an enclosing frame, border, or edging
3 : check, restraint a price curb government policies that are designed to put a curb on spending
4 : a raised edge or margin to strengthen or confine
5 : an edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter They sat on the curb eating their ice cream.
6 [from the fact that it originally transacted its business on the street] : a market for trading in securities not listed on a stock exchange
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Examples of curb in a Sentence
We sat on the curb eating our ice cream.
these international regulations act as a curb on the plundering of a nation's archaeological treasures
Recent Examples of curb from the Web
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Several weeks earlier, Nanglee Vang was jogging with his wife in Vista when a driver accused of being drunk jumped a curb and plowed into them.
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Protesters took to the streets, smashing curbs to create their own accessible ramps.
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Risk said the developer will only will make improvements along its frontage consistent with the rest of the street, either a curb or an open drainage system with a shoulder on a 24-foot right-of-way.
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Without curbs on greenhouse gases, Louisville could experience as many as 92 days in 2100 with deadly heat and humidity.
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Martinez Torres drove onto a curb and the group scattered, Parker said.
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The morning after, red spray paint marked the path that investigators studied, the bike jumping the curb, scarring and gouging the grass over several hundred feet before battering between a utility pole and a stand of pine trees.
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The suspect, 22-year-old Darwin Martinez Torres, drove up onto a curb and the group scattered, Parker said.
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City engineers have said that a true fix for Ann Street involves comprehensive structural work - replacing the roadbed, updating some buried utilities and installing new curbs and sidewalks.
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Origin and Etymology of curb
Middle French courbe curve, curved piece of wood or iron, from courbe curved, from Latin curvus
curb
Definition of curb
transitive verb
1 : to furnish with a curb
2 : to check or control with or as if with a curb trying to curb her curiosity
3 : to lead (a dog) to a suitable place (such as a gutter) for defecation
Examples of curb in a Sentence
The legislation is intended to curb price and wage increases.
pills designed to curb your appetite
Recent Examples of curb from the Web
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Other festivals have already attempted to curb sexual assaults by excluding men from certain spaces.
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The housing would be the first approved in east Jerusalem since Trump called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to curb settlement construction in February.
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New York, Rhode Island, Maine, and more recently West Virginia and Ohio have taken steps to curb this problem by enacting some limits on prescribing opioids.
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MSD since 2005 has been forced to spend nearly $1 billion to help make up for the community's past sins in many of those areas, curbing sewage overflows and making urban areas more like a sponge to soak up and naturally filter dirty stormwater.
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For that reason, insurers have warned Florida lawmakers to tighten the rules in an attempt to curb the litigation, or the mounting losses will continue costing customers more.
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Its appeal, of course, is the potential to curb costs.
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Looney said the need for federal action to curb the Pennsylvania plant’s pollution was highlighted this week when Connecticut officials issued several air quality alerts during high-temperature days.
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Ande Rodriguez argues that the option to use marijuana would actually curb the use of pain pills, a far more addictive and potentially dangerous threat.
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Origin and Etymology of curb
derivative of 1curb
Synonym Discussion of curb
CURB Defined for English Language Learners
curb
playDefinition of curb for English Language Learners
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: a short border along the edge of a street that is usually made of stone or concrete
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: something that controls or limits something else
curb
Definition of curb for English Language Learners
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: to control or limit (something)
CURB Defined for Kids
Definition of curb for Students
curbed
;curbing
: to control or limit curb spending This will curb your appetite.
Medical Dictionary
curb
playMedical Definition of curb
: a swelling on the back of the hind leg of a horse just behind the lowest part of the hock joint that is due to strain or rupture of the ligament and generally causes lameness
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